Archive for: March, 2012

First Global Effort to Fight Environmental Crime Takes Shape
LYON, France, March 30, 2012 (ENS) – For the first time, heads of environmental, biodiversity and natural resources agencies from across the world have met with heads...

62 Yellowstone Bison Freed on Indian Reservation in Montana
HELENA, Montana, March 29, 2012 (ENS) – After five years in quarantine captivity, 62 Yellowstone bison, one of the most important biological and cultural species...

Electric Vehicles Land Sea Air USA 2012
SAN JOSE, California, March 29, 2012 (ENS) – “We are in the decade of the hybrid,” EV consultant Dr. Peter Harrop told an audience at this week’s Electric Vehicles...

53 Nations Make Progress on Nuclear Security
SEOUL, South Korea, March 29, 2012 (ENS) – All loose nuclear material the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, one of the largest nuclear test sites in the world, has...

U.S. EPA Puts First Greenhouse Gas Limits on New Power Plants
WASHINGTON, DC, March 27, 2012 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed the nation’s first Clean Air Act standard for carbon dioxide...

Kenya Contains Arson Fires in Parks, Nabs Wildlife Poachers
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 27, 2012 (ENS) – A wildfire raging in the Mt. Kenya National Park since March 15 finally has been contained by government agencies, military...

Planet Under Pressure: ‘a Much Hotter Planet’
LONDON, UK, March 26, 2012 (ENS) – Scientists at the Planet under Pressure conference in London today added their stern warning to others issued over the past several...

City of Buffalo Ordered to Stop Polluting Niagara River
BUFFALO, New York, March 26, 2012 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the Buffalo Sewer Authority to comply with federal Clean Water Act requirements...

‘Water Is Life and Sanitation is Dignity’
NEW YORK, New York, March 22, 2012 (ENS) – Ensuring universal access to water and using it wisely in agriculture is essential to end famine, drought and political instability,...

U.S. Forms Water Partnership to Boost National, Global Security
WASHINGTON, DC, March 22, 2012 (ENS) – “While wars over water are unlikely within the next 10 years, water challenges – shortages, poor water quality,...

Half the World’s Key Nature Sites Still Unprotected
GLAND, Switzerland, March 22, 2012 (ENS) – Only half of the world’s most important wildlife sites have been fully protected, according to a new study led by BirdLife...